kripplebush

yes it was spring

    remember when david saved us?

we circle back to this day

    when we cut our jeans to make shorts on the first warm day

in rare lulls when we are together

    then we had like no pants left 

we plunged into the mud

    for the rest of the winter

we tie ourselves together 

    kathleen you went in first

with a day

    no it was me

i have no independent memory of

    well nina got stuck and was balling of course

just the ruts of retelling

     i was not!

a clamoring of voices

    monie was stoic like always

editing each other

    practically pushed david away

adding up to a tapestry    

   heather you thought you were going to rescue us

that in the end 

   yes yes but i got stuck after two seconds

is as rich as the day

   he plucked us up one by one

and i can see the sun through the bare branches

   and left us safe

just like it must have been

   on the dry gravel driveway